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meddlingfool
PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:43 pm 
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I've been looking around quite a bit trying to fing how/why in regards to this subject, but have yet to discover a comprehensive source of info. I keep running into the same dead ends. Lots of speaker gadget setups, pretty picture of glitter patterns etc. but a paucity of reasoning and methodology. For instance, much mention is made of the ring mode, the ring plus mode, but what do these represent? A lot of you folks out there know exactly what you're doing. How did you learn, and where did you get your info?
Thanks kindly for any tips...
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Fred Tellier
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Search out and purchase Alan Carruth's video, a little long but very interesting information. Also joint the Left Brain Luthiers Yahoo group and search it for info.

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I have done both. Perhaps I need to re-examine the search function on LBL. Alan's video seemed to start in on 201 without a 101 intro. I'll rewatch that as well...
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Pat Foster
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Read everything you can find by Carruth and Mark Blanchard, and study the acoustics section at University of New South Wales (UNSW). Keep at it - the light will go on!

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Al Carruth has a good article on his website that you'll probably find interesting

http://www.alcarruthluthier.com/Downloads/Acoustic1.pdf

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meddlingfool
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Thanks, that was interesting.
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Edzard
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"Free Plate Tuning, Part One: Theory", Al Carruth, American Lutherie, Number 28, Winter 1991. Discusses the theory behind plate tuning

"Free Plate Tuning, Part Two: Violins", Al Carruth, American Lutherie, Number 29, Spring 1992. Discusses plate tuning for the Violin, and some cello.

"Free Plate Tuning, Part Three: Guitars", Al Carruth, American Lutherie, Number 30, Summer 1992. Discusses plate tuning for Guitars (some Archtop, mostly Classic and Flat-Top).

The above can be found in the Red Book nr 3 (http://www.luth.org).


Also:
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/guitar/
http://www.hakwright.co.uk/thesis.html
http://www.speech.kth.se/music/acviguit4/

Books/Journals:
The Physics of Musical Intruments - N. Fletcher and T. Rossing
Journals of Guitar Acoustics (http://www.journalofguitaracoustics.com/)
Research Papers in Violin Acoustics 1975-1993 - Carleen M. Hutchins (http://acousticalsociety.org/asa_publications/books)
Left-Brain Lutherie - David C. Hurd (http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Books,_plan ... herie.html)
Akustik der Gitarre in Einzeldarstellungen - Jürgen Meyer (http://www.bochinsky.de/index.php/cPath ... tarre.html)



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Edzard
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Bounty!
Thanks Edzard.
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